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“And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.”
“And I've been acting for 39 years, so I define characters differently than I did in say Miami Vice”
“And I've been hurt hurt bad. I might be just twenty-six, but I'm an old woman in disguise twenty-six goin'on sixty-five.”
“And I've been incredibly lucky to have a long career in journalism that has given me a front-row seat to some of the most important moments in modern American political life.”
“And I've been lucky in that I haven't had another job besides acting in the last five years.”
“And I've been taking acting classes since I was 7.”
“And I've been waiting for you, because I couldn't do anything else. And we've both known that we would meet again, and then it would be all over with life and everything that gave our existence meaning and tension. A secret of the kind that lurks between the two of us has extraordinary power. It burns through the fabric of life like a scorching beam, and yet at the same time it also gives it tensile strength. It forces us to live.”
“And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.”
“And I've been wearing specs since I was three.”
Source: Lord of the Flies: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“And I've come to the place where I believe that there's no way to solve these problems, these issues - there's nothing that we can do that will solve the problems that we have and keep the peace, unless we solve it through God, unless we solve it in being our highest self. And that's a pretty tall order.”
“And I've found that since you can't electrify yourself like a fence, the next best thing is to have murderer's eyes.”
“And I've got some screenplays and plays ready to dip into when I need to.”
“And I've known people who came out with a sense of torture.”
“And I've never taken up a sport just because it was a social fad.”
“And I've never viewed comics as assignments for the client”
“And I've played piano since I was little, so I was originally the piano player in the band.”
“And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land”
“And I've shot in Prince Edward Island winters, I mean, I've shot in some intense, intense temperatures.”
“And I, a materialist who does not believe in the starry heaven promised to a human being, for this dog and for every dog I believe in heaven, yes, I believe in a heaven that I will never enter, but he waits for me wagging his big fan of a tail so I, soon to arrive, will feel welcomed.”
Source: The Poetry of Pablo Neruda
“And I, as I lived, in an alien landWill die a slave and an orphan.”
“And I, infinitesimal being, drunk with the great starry void, likeness, image of mystery, I felt myself a pure part of the abyss, I wheeled with the stars, my heart broke loose on the wind.”
Source: Selected poems
“And I, love, am a pathological liar.”
Source: Collected Poems
“And I, Nephi, took one of the daughters of Ishmael to wife.' Well Mr. Go-And-Do just went and did!”
“And I, stepping from this skin Of old bandages, boredoms, old faces Step to you from the black car of Lethe, Pure as a baby.”
Source: Ariel: The Restored Edition
“And I, the former mystic, was thinking: Yes, man is stronger, greater than God. When Adam and Eve deceived You, You chased them from paradise. When You were displeased by Noah’s generation, You brought down the Flood. When Sodom lost Your favour, You caused the heavens to rain down fire and damnation. But look at these men whom You have betrayed, allowing them to be tortured, slaughtered, gassed, and burned, what do they do? They pray before You! They praise Your name!”
“And I, the while, the sole unbusy thing,
Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing.”
Source: The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“And I, unfortunately, have been to too many disasters as president.”
“And I, what is my crime I cannot tell,
Unless it be a crime to haue lou'd too well.”
“And I, who have never thought in terms of a life, think to myself that I could make a life out of this.”
Source: The Realm of Possibility
“And I, who timidly hate life, fear death with fascination. I fear this nothingness that could be something else, and I fear it as nothing and as something else simultaneously, as if gross horror and non-existence could coincide there, as if my coffin could entrap the eternal breathing of a bodily soul, as if immortality could be tormented by confinement. The idea of hell, which only a satanic soul could have invented seems to me to have derived from this sort of confusion - a mixture of two different fears that contradict and contaminate each other.”
“And I... started off dumb, raised by the hoodrats, listen to the radio wishin that i could rap.”
“And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself.”
Source: Everybody's Autobiography
“And if [Vladimir Putin] does fight ISIL alone, how does it work out for Russia to have sided with Assad, sided with Iran, sided with Hizballah, when they're trying to reach out to the rest of the Sunni world in the region? That's not a good equation for Russia.”
“And if a collection of bad cells no bigger than a walnut could destroy all those things, those things that are so personal that they can never be properly articulated, so personal you hardly dared admit their existence to yourself, what did that leave? How could you trust life again? How could you see it as anything more meaningful than a Saturday night demolition derby?”
Source: Roadwork
“And if a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up. I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible.”
“And if a diversion is needed, why not arrest a general? Arthur Dillon is a friend of eminent deputies, a contender for the post of Commander-in-Chief of the Northern Front; he has proved himself at Valmy and in a halfdozen actions since. In the National Assembly he was a liberal; now he is a republican. Isn't it then logical that he should be thrown into gaol, July 1, on suspicion of passing military secrets to the enemy?”
“And if a few other people come along who discover my music because they in some natural way come across my music, cool.”
“And if a friend does you wrong, then say: "I forgive you what you have done to me; that you have done it to YOURSELF, however--how could I forgive that!”
Source: Thus spake Zarathustra
“And if a man consider the original of this great Ecclesiastical Dominion, he will easily perceive, that the Papacy , is no other than the Ghost of the deceased Romane Empire , sitting crowned upon the grave thereof: For so did the Papacy start up on a Sudden out of the Ruines of that Heathen Power.”
Source: Leviathan - Revised Edition
“And if a man goes through fire for his doctrine - what does that prove? Verily, it is more if your own doctrine comes out of your own fire.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“And if a man reads very hard, as the old anecdote reminds us, he will have little time for thought.”
Source: The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays
“And if a minister shall usurp the supreme and absolute govern ment of America, and set up his instructions as laws in the colonies, and their Governors shall be so weak or so wicked, as for the sake of keeping their places, to be made the instruments in putting them in execu tion, who will presume to say that the people have not a right, or that it is not their indispensible duty to God and their Country, by all rational means in their power to RESIST THEM.”
“And if a moment exists only in one's perception anyway, then perhaps the rush of feeling he has now is THE MOMENT, and not merely its shadow.”
“And if a person here or there felt a pang of nostalgia for Mother Earth, they swallowed the feeling and buried it deep in their belly, beneath a heap of unasked questions.”
Source: Imber
“And if a person is religious, I think it's good, it helps you a bit. But if you're not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe.”
“And if a person were given all of the world and what is in it, it would not fill his emptiness.”
“And if after all this you eventually fail; don't take it personal. Don't be ashamed to start all over again.”
“And if all of us are play-acting, there can be no such thing as a soul mate, because we don't have genuine souls.”
Source: Gone Girl: A Novel
“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”
“And if all womankind banded together and took the male path, the world would turn into one huge brothel.”